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CVE-2021-22263

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22263 is a medium-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GitLab versions 13.0 through 14.2.2. An external user with Maintainer role on a project, where project tokens are enabled, can elevate their account status to 'Internal' and gain unauthorized access to internal projects. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with high impact on confidentiality and integrity, but requires high privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 13.0.0, < 14.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 13.0.0, < 14.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 14.1.0, < 14.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 14.1.0, < 14.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 14.2.0, < 14.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0106 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 3,565 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

gitlab.com / gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22263.json
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/331473
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
hackerone.com / reports/1193062
ExploitThird Party Advisory